Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-17
THE SUICIDE OF LOUIS 11NeG.

| Some Interesting Facts Told At the
| CorOner's Enquest-The Manner In
| Which the Bomb Was Struggled In
| TO His Cell
| CHICAGO, Nov. 16.-A little sensation waf
developed at the Lingg inquest to-day by the
exhibition of three letters received by jurors
The letters implied that the turkeys killed
Llngg and were evidently written by the
| same man for the writing was alike. The
letter to Juror Muller WAS as follows:
CITY, November %.
Dear sir1You are aware that. you are on the
Ling Lingg VIII yoH please take particular notice
about him and Henry Hogan finding so much about
Lingg when there were others that were in bis cell
or not? Yours, J. H. WERE.
Jurors Obermann and Henry Weno received
similar letters, although Mr.. Weno's CORE
spondent signed himself American" and
Mr.. Obermann's "Citizen." The writing was
scrawly and evidently that of German.
Jailer Folz testified that Lingg killed himself
with small bomb three inches long. Mr.
Folz exhibited half dozen twisted and
blood stained pieces of gas. These were the
pieces found in Lingg's cell. A small bolt
one and half inches long plugged up one
end of the little bomb and the rest contained
the dynamite. Jailer Folz then described
the finding of the bombs on Sunday. "On
search of Lingg's cell: Jailer Hogan went
in first and I followed. It was
pretty dark and Hogan ran against
some obstruction. It fell over
on the bottom, splitting out two bombs on
the floor When we got quieted little we
took the box out. 1t had false bottom and
in this were found two more bombs We
searched all the prisoners and Lingg's cell
thoroughly and how he got the bomb with
which he killed himself I cannot say" Sher-
if Matson questioned Mr.. Folz until he ellie
tied the fact that no one had been near nor
could get near Lingg after the four bombs
were found except the two keepers. Sheriff
Matson said Lingg must have had the bomb
concealed about his person somewhere.
County Physician Meyer probably gave the
correct place of the concealment of the bomb
and that was within the bombmaker's body.
have concealed it without our knowledge -
said the doctor, "for we searched every
where" The jury seemed to accept this
theory as plausible.
William Englehardt and John ONeill, the
turkeys who examine and pass packages,
etc., sent to Lingg, the only new fact brought
out by them being that Lingg was allowed to
smoke cigars after the bombs were found in
his cell. Sheriff Matson was on the stand
for twenty minutes. His theory was that
Lingg received the bomb with which he kill
ed himself through the screenings; that it
was given him by some outside party before
the big find and that he had concealed it in
some mysterious manner about his person.
John G. Klein, the Times reporter who
aided the physician in caring for Lingg after
the explosion, gave plausible theory as to
the manner in which the bomb was
gotten through the bars into Lingg's
hands. On the Thursday before the bombs
were found Miss Friedel or Miss Mueller.
Klein, came to the jail. Lingg was allowed
to see and talk to her through the bars. A
crowd of Lingg's friends pressed close around
the girl and then the bomb might have been
passed through the screen.
The jury was out twenty-five minutes and
returned verdict TO the effect that Louis
Lingg came to his death on the 10th day of
November from shock hemorrhage and fatty
embolism of the heart, caused by the explo-
sion of bomb about two inches long, half
an inch in diameter and filed with dynamite,
said bomb being exploded by his own hand
with suicidal intent"
John Buehler, president of the Waldheim
Cemetery association, speaking this after
noon of the probability that the dead An
arohists would be permanently inferred at
said the association would never
again allow such speeches or such scenes as
took place last Sunday. If any monument
should be erected the plans would first have
to meet the approval OF the directors of the
cemetery. No reasonable inscription
would be allowed on the monument. The
A1beiter Zeitung publishes letter addressed
to the wife of Engel by certain Snowman
offering her s10,0 900 for the body of Lingg,
the purpose being to place it on exhibition
in the different cities throug hout the United
States.